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About Hilary Mantel
British writer
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer best known for historical fiction, as well as memoir and short stories. Her work ranged across several forms, and she published from the mid-1980s onward. Her first novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, appeared in 1985. Over her career she wrote 12 novels, two short story collections, a memoir, and many articles and opinion pieces.
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- “I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, findi…”Hilary Mantel
- “When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who…”Hilary Mantel
- “The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient…”Hilary Mantel
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Pride: more sayings
- “If you plant your crops in the weather of pride they will grow tall and fall down. Take away pride and your d…”Israelmore Ayivor
- “I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-b…”Walter Cronkite
- “Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not.”Sandy Blair
Loneliness: more sayings
- “I say this to myself alone: when you feel crushed, those around you look broken. When you glow, darkness turn…”Bahauddin
- “there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”Charles Bukowski
- “He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures l…”James Joyce
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Books by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies
2013
Wolf Hall
2015
The Mirror and the Light
2020
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
2014
An Experiment in Love
2007